SeanDav

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by SeanDav 11y ago
DDG does not log queries in the same way Google does, they are far more generalized, even so, even if a company say they don't log use, or limit logging, it still does not mean they can be completely trusted. If you are doing something
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by SeanDav 11y ago
By now, absolutely everyone knows that using a mobile phone is not secure if you really are trying to keep something safe.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
This reminds me of a similar problem with wikipedia. A well known celebrity (Author I think) noticed that his birth date was incorrect. He tried to get it changed, even stating that he was the actual person and knows his own birthday - only
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I initially had the thought: "Now everyone will be calling themselves XYZ Space Center" , but that is just cynical. The real story is that it just shows that a bit of self belief can achieve wonders. A more subtle point and one
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by SeanDav 12y ago
It seems to be working: > "In an area Kawai directly supervises at the forging division of Toyota’s Honsha plant, workers twist, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts instead of using the typically automated process. Experiences t
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I am surprised he did not also try for the paedophile angle. Those are the 2 old chestnuts always pulled out to justify government/police surveillance. Meanwhile, back in the UK, government is using terrorist introduced legislation to
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by SeanDav 12y ago
One of the things that I take from this article is that it appears to support the use of hellbanning as an anti troll measure. Not that hellbanning is a perfect solution - like everything else it depends on how it is implemented and managed
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Zero hours contracts are just another method that companies use to avoid paying employee benefits. This is precisely the type of behaviour that is being targeted by this lawyer. You have the responsibilities of being an employee but the com
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Who is behind Linux now, and should you be afraid?(cio.com)
4 points by SeanDav 12y ago|0 comments
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Something like this but for JavaScript would be useful.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
While on this subject, I would like to see less downvoting for comments you don't agree with but are otherwise ok. Downvoting should be reserved for factually incorrect comments, trolling, meanness and other undesirable properties, not
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by SeanDav 12y ago
This is interesting, but not particularly profound. Pretty much it says that passing spam through multiple filters is more effective than passing spam through a single, complex filter. This is a well known and well used technique.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I have no idea if the USA has a debtors jail or not, but I don't think this is about going to jail for being in debt, it is about going to jail for breaking a court imposed order. The court order could have been about a restraining ord
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by SeanDav 12y ago
There seems to have been a sea change in opinion of many HN posters here, especially among the more recent visitors to HN. A couple of years ago Facebook was considered by many here to be an invasion of privacy and just not worth the effort
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Most of the European countries that got internet infrastructure installed recently, like Poland and Romania for example, have very fast, very cheap internet access. Some of my East European friends make me positively jealous with their chea
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Sounds like you could be a poster child for 1984. In your keenness to try discredit what Stallman is saying you cherry pick a few examples and completely avoid most of the far more serious issues raised here. I can only hope that if the day
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Sometimes it easier to be anonymous when trying to talk about something extremely personal.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
So many misconceptions here as to what DevOps is. I think mugsie comes closest with his use of the term "empathy". This is very very close, but I would add one more term "cooperation". DevOps, when implemented correctl
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by SeanDav 12y ago
My definition of a bad programmer is one who does not want to learn and progress. Everything else is just levels of experience.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
It is dangerous to try to predict something as complex and interrelated as investment, based on such simple parameters. The OP could have been right just by sheer chance and is claiming insight, but is likely just luck and survivorship bias
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by SeanDav 12y ago
> Spring 2008, Microsoft – “Give me 10 ways to improve an elevator.” . . . The interviewer called me on it, and (verbatim) said “are you fucking with me?” Got to laugh at the irony of this comment during a software/programming int
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by SeanDav 12y ago
China is only trying to be upfront and public about things the US and Western countries have been doing in private for years. That is not to say I approve, (I do not) but my respect for Chinese authorities just went up a notch. The good thi
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How does Facebook manage if it still runs off MySQL?(quora.com)
1 points by SeanDav 12y ago|0 comments
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I think Henry's decision had very little to do with foresight and wisdom and a lot more to do with his gonads.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Genuine question: What on earth is interesting about Facebook, especially why is Facebook more interesting than YouTube? I agree that YouTube's ads are invasive and annoying but finding stuff is fairly easy. Agree on comments. Twitter
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Overhydration and Endurance Running(irunfar.com)
93 points by SeanDav 12y ago|28 comments
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Of course it could. If only say 4% of their workforce was women before, and this increased to 8% after stripping out gender identity, then that is a huge increase (double) the amount of women. This is because women are being hired at the ra
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by SeanDav 12y ago
At times my work has brought me into contact with Americans and in general they just do not get sarcasm and satire. Obviously not true of everyone but in general in my experience, Americans (not sure about Canadians) take things that you sa
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by SeanDav 12y ago
DevOps is an integral part of Continuous Deployment. I am not sure why methods used to make deployment of software more frequent and less error prone should raise anyone's hackles. I guess it is not understanding what DevOps is and wha
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by SeanDav 12y ago
The difference between your example and the Weather/Climate example is that coin tosses are based on a mathematically random premise, climate change assumptions are based on giant, complex models with a large number of subjective input

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